MVP Systems Software Extends JAMS V6.1 with Predictive Scheduling

MVP Systems Software, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise job scheduling and workload automation software, has released a series of predictive scheduling enhancements to JAMS Job Scheduler 6.1, the latest version of its flagship workload automation solution. JAMS provides a comprehensive set of features to view and manage the upcoming batch processing schedule for an enterprise. The Projected Schedule View dynamically generates a visualization of any set of batch jobs and plots them on a customizable calendar. The interface’s controls enable users to view jobs on any time frame, from a 15-minute window to a month of data.

"One of the challenges of maintaining an efficient batch job schedule is responding to changes in the platforms, servers and applications on which these schedules depend, says David Kluskiewicz, VP of Marketing for MVP Systems Software. “These underlying systems can change rapidly, especially in today’s increasingly agile IT departments. A job that may take 5 minutes one day may run longer, or shorter, with each successive execution. We designed the Projected Schedule View to clearly display how each job’s start time, end time and duration impact the overall schedule."

IT managers who are responsible for high performance computing environments can leverage the new Projected Schedule View to quickly identify common issues that impact their business objectives, such as:

Server resources reaching their limits

Start and completion times that exceed SLA requirements

Runaway jobs

Dependencies that are unlikely to be satisfied

JAMS employs a system of color codes to expose jobs with these potentially costly conditions. From the Projected Schedule View’s built-in controls, JAMS users can drill down into a job’s history to see how performance has changed over time or they can access a job’s properties to make rapid on-the-fly changes to accommodate new conditions.

“The performance metrics of an enterprise’s workload automation solution contain valuable business intelligence,” says Kluskiewicz. “With the release of the Projected Schedule View in JAMS, we have made those performance metrics visible and actionable.”

The latest version of JAMS also includes enhanced support for Microsoft Dynamics AX, SQL 2014, Symitar Episys and GT Software's NeoBatch.

About JAMS
JAMS is the only job scheduling system built on the .NET framework and is the first enterprise job scheduling system that can be leveraged by both IT Operations Personnel and Application Developers. With its roots in Windows, JAMS also supports running processes across a variety of operating systems (UNIX, Linux, System i, OpenVMS, etc.) and applications (PeopleSoft, SAP, SQL, Oracle, Symitar, Ecometry, etc.) To learn more about JAMS, please visit http://www.JAMSScheduler.com or call 800-261-JAMS.

About MVP Systems Software, Inc.
For more than 20 years, MVP Systems Software, Inc. has provided leading-edge batch job scheduling and workload automation solutions to more than 1,000 customers. Customers include household names such as Alcoa, Bank of America, Yum Brands, Logitech, Jones Apparel Group, CVS Caremark, and Syracuse University. MVP’s solutions are available for all models of IT architecture, from physical servers to virtualized and hybrid environments. You can learn more about MVP Systems Software at http://www.jamsscheduler.com/company/about-mvp/.